Song Idea: Making The Same Different (II)
Song Analysis Of The Song Idea! I used the Song Analysis exercise to get a better handle on what is going on in the song and the poem....
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Song Idea: Making The Same Different (I)
Song Idea – Is It An Idea? One of your biggest challenges as a songwriter is finding an original angle on a song idea. In his book...
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Adele “Chasing Pavements”
A recent comment on the blog got me thinking. The comment was downplaying the songwriter’s lyrics, mentioning they sounded as if...
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Paula Cole: Poetic Meter & Rhythm
William Carlos Williams once said, “measure is all.” Ezra Pound insisted in 1915 that “rhythm must have meaning.”...
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Song Plugging: What Is It?
There’s a great overview of song plugging and song pluggers on BloggingMuses.com entitled “The Five Key Steps to Song...
Read MorePoetry and Songwriting: Two Examples
Poetry and songwriting come from the same stock – language. Here are two examples of how you can quickly, and easily set a literal...
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